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Are you advocating for more dispersion of companies around the country, or a different tech hub? I'm not sure the former is good for me as an engineer. It'd be
by superuser2 10y ago
Are you advocating for more dispersion of companies around the country, or a different tech hub?
I'm not sure the former is good for me as an engineer. It'd be nice to afford a decent house, but less so if I have to sell it and move cross country to advance my career or flee an employer going the way of Yahoo. Barriers like geography, moving costs, social ties in different cities keeping the best employer-employee pairs from finding each other are a form of inefficiency that I'm not sure we should seek to introduce.
I'd like the latter - we could build it somewhere more development-friendly, which would make it less insane than the Bay Area housing market, but putting a huge industry of well-paid professionals somewhere isn't compatible with low cost of living (see: Manhattan, DC).
- Joof 10y agoMore tech hubs. I'll admit that I don't know enough about housing, but the bay area and Manhattan are both water-restricted in terms of room for housing development and DC has political restrictions on land developmentment as well.